CEREBRAL DAMAGE IN INFANTS AND IN CHILDREN

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THE SUBJECT of my address was chosen with misgivings because so much has already been written about it and I can contribute little that is really new. In extenuation I can only plead that a great deal yet remains to be learned about the subject and that even a minor exploration in a field of major importance might discover something of interest. I venture to discuss today certain aspects of the distressing problem that plagues every pediatrician so often, that of the children with damaged brains who come because of mental deficiency, spastic paralysis, epilepsy and certain other neurologic disorders, occurring singly or in various combinations, and I shall limit the discussion to those with cortical atrophy objectively demonstrated by pneumoencephalogram. Whenever one sees such a child one wonders what was the cause of his trouble, when it began and, most of all, whether it might have been prevented, since

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